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Welcome to Road to the Eater Awards, in which the Indiana band Houndmouth chronicles the good eating along the Southern leg of their "From the Hills Below the City" tour, culminating at Eater Eve and the Eater Awards. This series is presented by Canon PowerShot, makers of the PowerShot S110 and SX280 cameras that captured all the action.
As always, New York City is both an incredibly exciting and frustrating place to be. On our very first trip to NYC, we opened for our friends Dry The River at Bowery Ballroom (which was so exciting) and then we hit a pothole in Brooklyn and our trailer literally popped off the hitch and skidded along the street shooting up sparks. I guess you could say that was frustrating…
Anyways, I think we finally figured out how to do NYC right—you have to know where you're going, where you're staying, where you're parking, and most of all where you're eating/drinking. During our back-to-back sold out shows at Mercury Lounge, we had to scavenger around for food and drink after the show. Which was fine, but the next two nights at the Eater events, we had everything we could want under one roof.
We showed up to the Angel Orensanz Foundation in the later afternoon on Sunday to load in our gear for Eater Eve. The building is a former synagogue and its absolutely gorgeous from top the bottom. The ambient lights and and the general antique-ness of the place have a pretty magical feel. We were excited to take the stage in such a cool place.
Everyone from Eater was super nice and took care of us in every way imaginable. Which wasn't hard to do consider the endless amount of food and drink that awaited everyone who came inside the joint. The downstairs and upstairs were littered with fantastic food booths from renowned southern restaurants around the country.
First, we check out some familiar faces: we visited with Chefs Edward Lee and Nick Sullivan torched our mouths again. We even said hello to Robert Newton and Kerry Diamond of Seersucker (and also of Nightingale 9) and tried their pork dish.
We adventured around to all the booths that we could handle both nights. Andrea Reusing's carrot (and many other ingredients) dish from Lantern was arguably the biggest pleaser of the entire weekend for us. All in all, every restaurant and chef brought their A-game to the Eater Awards. We couldn't have been more pleased.
The cocktails were the icing on top. From the gin and tonics with artisan bitters, to bourbon and you-name-its, and even to the jalapeno-infused gin cucumber cocktails - it was incredible. Oh, and plenty of Negra Modelo to boot.
We'd like to thank Lock and everyone from Eater for having us. We hit some great restaurants on our trip, and nothing compared to the gourmet experience of the deliciousness at the Eater Awards. It made us wish we could enjoy such things on a nightly basis, but now we are stuck back in food reality.
And an even bigger thanks to all the folks at the awards who checked us out. We'll be back around soon, keep an eye out. And maybe consider inviting us over for dinner, if you're into that sort of thing.


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Colonial period, 1788–1901
British settlement of Australia began as a penal colony governed by a captain of the Royal Navy. Until the 1850s, when local forces began to be recruited, British regular troops garrisoned the colonies with little local assistance. From 1788 marines guarded English settlements at Sydney Cove and Norfolk Island; they were relieved in 1790 by a unit specifically recruited for colonial service, and in 1810 the 73rd Regiment of Foot became the first line regiment to serve in Australia. From then until 1870, 25 British infantry regiments and several smaller artillery and engineer units were stationed in the colonies. One role of the troops was to guard Australia against external attack, but their main job was to maintain civil order, particularly against the threat of convict uprisings, and to suppress the resistance of the Aboriginal population to British settlement.
With the end of convict transportation to New South Wales in 1840, the need for military forces diminished and troop strength began to decline, particularly as British troops were required in the first Anglo–Maori wars in New Zealand and as colonial police forces were formed. After the last British regiment left in 1870 the colonies were obliged to assume responsibility for their own defence. Only rarely during their time in Australia did British troops fire upon fellow Europeans. In March 1804 British regulars suppressed a convict rebellion near Castle Hill, and in 1829 soldiers were involved in putting down the "Ribbon Gang" outbreak near Bathurst. In an incident that took place after transportation had ended, British troops, along with police, battled insurgent miners at the Eureka Stockade, on the Ballarat goldfields, on 4 December 1854.
British soldiers based in Australia who did partake in military operations were more likely to have fought across the Tasman in the Anglo–Maori wars of the 1840s and 1860s. Resulting from the continuing expansion of European settlers onto Maori land and the colonial government's determination to crush native independence, the first war took place in 1845–46. With insufficient troops in New Zealand to meet the threat, the 58th Regiment of Foot, then based in Australia, was dispatched in February 1845, soon to be followed by further troops. Fighting died down after 1846 but flared again in 1860 before a truce was declared and peace returned.
By 1863 hostilities had reignited, and New Zealand's colonial authorities requested further assistance from Australia. A contingent of British troops was dispatched, along with Her Majesty's Colonial Steam Sloop Victoria. In July 1863 British troops invaded the Waikato area and news of the continuing campaign spread through the Australian colonies. Some 2,500 volunteers offered their services on the promise of settlement on confiscated Maori land by New Zealand recruiters; most joined the Waikato Militia regiments, others became scouts and bush guerrillas in the Company of Forest Rangers. Few of these volunteers were involved in major battles, and fewer than 20 were killed.
Despite the preponderance of British troops in the Australian colonies, colonial military forces were maintained from as early as December 1788, when the commandant of Norfolk Island, Phillip Gidley King, ordered his free male settlers (numbering six) to practise musketry on Saturdays. The first military unit raised on the Australian mainland appeared in September 1800, when Governor Hunter asked 100 free male settlers in Sydney and Parramatta to form Loyal Associations (English volunteer units raised to put down civil unrest) and practice military drills in case the Irish convicts rebelled. Six years later Governor King recruited six ex-convicts as the nucleus of a military bodyguard, creating the first full-time military unit to be raised in Australia. Both these groups joined British regulars in suppressing the Castle Hill uprising.
Not until 1854 were volunteer corps and militia again formed in the Australian colonies, but news of war between Britain and Russia in the Crimea led to the establishment of volunteer corps in some colonies and the formation of informal rifle clubs in others. When the Crimean War ended in 1856 volunteer units faded, to be revived in 1859 when it appeared that Napoleon III was preparing to invade England. By early 1860 most suburbs and towns in Australia supported a volunteer unit, usually a rifle corps.
For the rest of the century volunteer corps became more organised, with instruction duties placed in the hands of professional soldiers. In the early 1890s several thousand citizen soldiers were mobilised in eastern Australia to assist regulars and police to maintain order during the maritime and shearing strikes of the early 1890s. In 1899 trained citizen soldiers were given the opportunity to test their skills in the Boer War, to which the colonial governments, and later the Commonwealth, sent contingents. The administration of colonial military forces passed to the Commonwealth on 1 March 1901, following federation.
Although much of the military training undertaken by volunteers in the colonies was aimed at meeting external threats, European settlement was accompanied by a protracted and undeclared war against Australia's Indigenous inhabitants. Fighting was localised and sporadic, following the frontiers of European settlement across the continent and continuing in remote areas of central and Western Australia until the 1930s. British soldiers (as distinct from armed police and civilians) became involved only rarely, notably during the period of martial law in Tasmania between 1828 and 1832, and in New South Wales in the mid-1820s and late 1830s. Military authorities did not usually regard Aborigines as posing sufficient threat to warrant the expense of committing military forces to pursue them, and most of the fighting was conducted by the settlers, assisted by police.
The conflict between Europeans and Aboriginal Australians followed a broadly similar pattern. At first, the Aborigines tolerated the settlers and sometimes welcomed them. But when it became apparent that the settlers and their livestock had come to stay, competition for access to the land developed and friction between the two ways of life became inevitable. As the settlers' behaviour became unacceptable to the Indigenous population, individuals were killed over specific grievances; these killings were then met with reprisals from the settlers, often on a scale out of proportion to the original incident. Occasionally Aborigines attacked Europeans in open country, resulting in encounters somewhat akin to conventional battles, usually won by the Europeans. Resistance was more successful when Aborigines employed stealth and ambush in rugged country. In addition to guerrilla tactics, Aborigines also engaged in a form of economic warfare, killing livestock, burning property, attacking drays which carried supplies, and, in Western Australia in the 1890s, destroying telegraph lines.
It is estimated that some 2,500 European settlers and police died in this conflict. For the Aboriginal inhabitants the cost was far higher: about 20,000 are believed to have been killed in the wars of the frontier, while many thousands more perished from disease and other unintended consequences of settlement. Aboriginal Australians were unable to restrain – though in places they did delay – the tide of European settlement; although resistance in one form or another never ceased, the conflict ended in their dispossession.
Further information is available on this web site. You can use Collection search to identify photographs and works of art from this era, as well as records of other collection items.
Sources and further reading:
R. Broome, "The struggle for Australia: Aboriginal–European warfare, 1770–1930", in M. McKernan and M. Browne (eds), Australia: two centuries of war and peace, Canberra, Australian War Memorial and Allen and Unwin, 1988
P. Dennis, et al., The Oxford companion to Australian military history, Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1995
Kit Denton, For Queen and Commonwealth: Australians at war, vol. 5, Sydney: Time-Life Books Australia, 1987
J. Grey, A military history of Australia, Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, 1990
H. Reynolds, The other side of the frontier: Aboriginal resistance to the European invasion of Australia, Ringwood, Vic., Penguin, 1982
P. Stanley, The remote garrison: the British army in Australia, 1788–1870, Kenthurst, NSW, Kangaroo Press, 1986
Craig Wilcox, For hearths and homes: citizen soldiering in Australia, 1854–1945, St Leonards, NSW, Allen and Unwin, 1998

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What happens with dredge spoil in the Sound?
Don't dump dredge spoil in eastern Long Island Sound.
That was the message some speakers had for the federal Environmental Protection Agency Wednesday at a hearing on finding potential sites to replace two existing dredge disposal sites in eastern Long Island Sound.
Others argued that dredging is necessary to maintain a water-based economy.
The meeting, held at Suffolk County Community College's culinary center in Riverhead, was billed as a "notice of intent to prepare a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement to evaluate the potential designation of one or more ocean-dredged material disposal sites to serve the eastern Long Island Sound region."
There are four such dredge dumping sites in Long Island Sound now, one dubbed the Western Suffolk site, south of Stamford, Conn.; one called Central Long Island Sound, south of New Haven; one called Cornfield Shoals, north of Greenport; and one called the New London site, just west of Fishers Island.
The Cornfield Shoals and New London sites are scheduled to be closed on Dec. 23, 2016, and the EPA is looking for new sites for dredge disposal, which was the subject of the hearing.
Most of what is disposed in these sites comes from Connecticut, according to the EPA. That's because the dredge material from Long Island is mostly sand, and can be used for beach restoration, whereas most of the dredge material from Connecticut is fine-grained silt or clay and cannot be used for beach restoration.
The Farmingdale-based Citizens Campaign for the Environment doesn't think any dredge spoil should be dumped in Long Island Sound, according to the non-profit group's executive programs manager, Maureen Dolan Murphy.
That group opposed the designation of the two western Long Island Sound sites in 2004 and opposes designating new sites, as well.
"It did not make logical sense that after millions of dollars spent on restoring the Sound, we would designate it as a long-term dumping ground," she said.
She said CCE agrees that dredging for navigation safety is necessary, but that open water disposal for dredge materials is not.
She said EPA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 2005 agreed to phase out open water dumping and to develop a "Dredged Material Management Plan" before deciding on its next step.
But that plan has never been developed, Ms. Murphy said.
"CCE believes it is risky and ill-advised to proceed with a long-term designation of an open-water disposal site before the final development of a DMMP," she said. "Particularly since the goal and intent of the DMMP was to reduce open water disposal."
Southold Town Councilman Al Krupski, who is running for Suffolk County Legislature in a special election being held Tuesday, echoed those sentiments.
"If Long Island Sound is a federally designated estuary, how do we propose to use it as a dump site for toxic spoil?" he said. "It just doesn't' make any sense."
The Fishers Island Conservancy also objects to any further open water dumping sites in Long Island Sound, and feels EPA should look to areas outside of Long Island Sound and Block Island Sound for dump sites, according to Robert Evans of the FIC.
"We've been concerned for many years about the damage caused by the large-scale disposal at the New London site," Mr. Evans said. "The Conservancy was party to the 1995 lawsuit that resulted in a 2002 settlement providing for the EPA's formal designation process for dredged material disposal sites."
He said the last large-scale dumping in the New London site was seven years ago, when about 400,000 cubic yards of dredge material was dumped there.
"The lobster population was greatly harmed and few believe the damage was coincidental," Mr. Evans said, adding that the waters near the site have very strong currents and shallow depths.
"Dumping spoil in those waters is akin to throwing dirt into a fan," Mr. Evans said.
Daniel Natchez, who owns a Mamaroneck-based environmental waterfront design company, took the opposite side of the argument, saying that people need to consider the economic impacts of not dredging.
"If you don't dredge, the material that everyone is concerned about just sits there, and you swim in it, or have recreation in it," he said, adding that people won't have access to waterways.
"These are things that are going to have an adverse effect to quality of life," he said.
And Bill Spicer, who owns Spicer's Marina in Noack, CT, near Mystic, also feels that dredging is needed for the economy.
"Connecticut has billions of dollars at stake on the waterfront," he said.
He suggested the dredge disposal sites be put in Connecticut waters, since Connecticut uses them more often.


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A3798, introduced earlier this year and sponsored by Assemblyman Reed Gusciora, would allow smaller distilleries to operate in the Garden State. It includes restrictions, such as a ceiling of 20,000 gallons of distilled alcoholic beverages per year and a requirement that at least 51% of the raw materials used to make such spirits are grown in the state. On-site sampling is expressly permitted. The pertinent section of the proposed amendment reads:
Craft Distillery License. 3d. The holder of this license shall be entitled, subject to rules and regulations, to manufacture not more 20,000 gallons of distilled alcoholic beverages, provided that not less than 51 % of the raw materials used in the production shall be grown in this State, and to rectify, blend, treat and mix distilled alcoholic beverages, and to sell and distribute without this State to any persons pursuant to the laws of the places of such sale and distribution, and to maintain a warehouse. The holder of this license may offer any person not more than three samples per calendar day for sampling purposes only on the distillery premises. For the purposes of this subsection, "sampling" means the gratuitous offering of an open container not exceeding one-half ounce serving of distilled alcoholic beverage produced on the distillery premises. The fee for this license shall be $938.$938. Almost 40 years ago, I visited my first still site in the New Jersey Pine Barrens. I'm certain that the moonshiners running that still paid nothing to the state for the privilege. This, though? This would be almost as cheap — and entirely legal.
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"the forward progress theory" & being brave
"Sometimes, the bravest thing you can do is to never look back."
Forward progress, in the mind, is almost a mandatory for success.
Forward progress, in practice, is great theoretically.
Forward progress, in theory, is big business.
For the latter, well, just see the gobs of information and quotes online with regard to "if you aren't moving forward you are standing still" … "don't look back or you'll miss what is in front of you" … "don't look back you are not going that way" or some fortune cookie wisdom like that <as if no one knows that movement, and progress, is good>. I call this the 'forward progress theory' business <I have noted elsewhere Life, like chess, is about facing the entire board and obstacles & opportunities which lie all around you, not just in front of you, & you can move in a variety of directions with progress in mind>.
That said.
With regard to progress, the bravest thing you can do is to not look back. Why do I say 'brave'? We make it really hard to not look back. Really hard. Day in and day out everything around you pounds on you for 'what did you learn' and how are you applying it and 'if you don't know learnings from the past how can you be sure that is the right thing to do?" <crap like that>.
Okay. Semi useful thinking crap like that. But what it really means is that anyone truly desiring to move forward, intent on progress, keeps getting dragged back time and again to the past. What, or who, is the main culprit of this almost unhealthy relationship with the past?
"Those who do not learn from the past are doomed to make the same mistakes."
No wonder people are afraid of some risk or hesitate to move forward keep looking backwards. Doom is never a particularly desirable objective if you care about your career <or anything for that matter>.
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
(George Santayana)
"I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what.
That's what it is to be alive."
Kurt Vonnegut
The 'doomed' aspect <which older business people toss around like confetti in meetings> means we are almost demanded to not only invest energy in the past but, in some cases, encouraged to hold on to past learning with ragged claws. That said … I will go back to the bravery aspect because I could argue the truest bravery, in this sense, resides in two places:
- Not looking back once you have decided to move forward.
- Not looking back when you purposefully stand still.
First. Move. There are actually times to just go. Go and do. I do not mean 'go' as solely leaning on instincts <I call this 'decision faking by intuition'>, because research tends to show instincts are less important than experience, but lean on your experience to guide you through the context of your progress. The truth is that the past cannot show you all the shit you need to know as you move forward. It only shows aspects of shit you should be aware of. And, worse, the past has nasty habit of not encouraging you to reflect on the context of all the aspects just the aspects themselves. Therefore history is truly only important in parts and not the whole.
This means you have to grab the scraps of what you need from the past and create a new whole in moving forward. That is where bravery steps up to the plate. More often than not you are creating a new whole … a slightly different version of what was. Yeah. That is different than the past <it s actually something new>. Yeah. Everyone is actually a creator, a discoverer albeit we don't like to think about that. While this point is a generalization … if you know your shit … once you have decided to go … to move forward … don't look back. Bravely face the new world ahead.
Second. Stand still. There are actually times to stop. Stand still. Even amidst activity. Even amidst a crowd which seems like it is moving forward <albeit sometimes all you see is the movement>.
Stillness, strategic stillness, is possibly one of the scariest things anyone can ever do. When everyone and everything is moving you feel like you are ding something wrong in standing still. And, yet, by purposefully doing so you may be adding to the progress rather than taking away from it.
Here is what I know about purposefully standing still.
You have to accept the fact you are offering the type of energy that no matter where you are and no matter that you are still & not moving you are actually adding value to the space and time and progress to that which is around you. I can promise you that this takes a version of bravery.
The entire 'Forward progress Theory' is difficult. Difficult in the mind <attitudes> and even in practice <behavior>. I could argue that it is so difficult because our natural instinct is to try and use the past to define what the future will look like. That is slightly crazy when you think about it. While the arc of time suggests the future will most likely replicate the past, well, that is the arc and not the details. It's kind of like discussing strategy versus tactics. The strategy may remain the same or similar, but the tactics will vary in the context of time & situation.
Progress does take some bravery, some courage. Mostly because the future will always contain something you have never seen before or faced before. In other words … it will not be the same as it was.
I don't think I am particularly brave but I certainly don't look back once I decide to go … and I have no qualms with standing still amidst movement. I tend to believe it is not bravery but rather experience.
Ah. Experience. Maybe you need to be brave to gain useful experience?
That's another post for another day ……..
"Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, 'So what'.
That's one of my favorite things to say. So what."
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1. You've learned not to buy your friend's movie ticket in advance.
She'll be late and then you won't be able to go inside to get seats that aren't in the front row.
2. You leave yourself 30 minutes to walk to someplace 10 minutes away.
You use those extra 20 minutes to call your mom.
3. Traffic makes you crazy.
You glance at the clock constantly, feeling increasingly anxious that you won't make it on time. (You will.)
4. You never go anywhere without reading material, whether it's a book, a magazine, or a fully charged iPhone.
You occasionally carry a charger with you too.
5. You are familiar with all dining options at the airport.
You'd rather be through security three hours early than stress about being late, so you end up getting dinner there rather than going straight to the gate.
6. You often experience that awkward feeling of lingering in the front part of a restaurant until your dining companion arrives.
Every bar stool is taken, and the host won't give you a table until the whole party is there.
7. You set your alarm for 6:55 instead of 7.
You don't want to feel too rushed without those extra five minutes.
8. You text ahead to say you may be a few minutes late to brunch but still show up 10 minutes early.
You realize the heads-up was especially silly when you're the first to get there.
9. You do laps around the block—by foot or by car—when it would be inappropriate to go in somewhere too early.
"I know my interview is scheduled for 45 minutes from now, but hi!"
10. You spend a lot of time sitting around in your going-out outfit with your hair and makeup done.
You started getting ready way in advance so you wouldn't have to scramble, but if you go pick up your friend now, she won't be ready.
11. You apologize profusely if you get somewhere two minutes after the appointed time.
Even though no one else seemed to notice.
12. Your friends are outwardly gleeful when they beat you somewhere.
"Well, well, well, look who decided to show up."
13. You get to a movie while the previous movie is still playing.
Then you have to wait outside while they clean the theater between showings.
14. You end up seeing opening acts you've never heard of at concerts.
You go with the "doors open" time to be safe rather than acknowledging that the main event won't start until more than an hour after that.
15. You feel completely lost without a watch.
Or at least an iPhone.
16. You have considered telling your perpetually late friend that a reservation is for 15 minutes earlier than it actually is.
That way you might actually get there at the same time.
17. You would be insulted if anyone ever did No. 16 to you.
Don't they know you at all?
18. You skip a workout because you're too worried you won't have enough time to shower and get to wherever you're supposed be next.
What's the point of going to yoga if you're just going to be stressed about the time the entire class?
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Iran displays video footage of captured US spy drone
Lodges official complaint over airspace violations
Iranian state television has shown video of what it claims is a US spy drone that was hijacked by its army's electronic warfare unit.
The government has shown footage of what appears to be a Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel, which the Iranians claim was flown from Afghanistan over the northern city of Kashmar when it was taken over and piloted down by army electronics specialists. Pentagon sources confirmed to the New York Times that contact had been lost with a drone, but did not confirm if it was the machine shown.
According to the web site for Iran's Revolutionary Guards, the drone has wings spanning around 26 meters, is around 4.5 meters in length and 1.84 meters high. It has a tailless, flying wing design and contains advanced systems of electronic data collection, imaging and communications, and various radar technologies.
Finders keepers
The drone itself appears to be relatively undamaged, although the underside is covered. While the Iranian military are claiming it took control of the drone and landed it, experts have their doubts. The RQ-170 is highly stealthy and is thought to cruise at extremely high altitudes, as high as 50,000 feet. That makes the possibility of it being shot down unlikely, yet the chances of successfully hacking the device are considered slimmer than an anorexic supermodel.
This could suggest that the drone being displayed is a dummy, and is being used to embarrass the US. Local media is reporting that Chinese and Russian advisors have asked for permission to inspect the downed drone.
The Iranians have also lodged a formal complaint over the drone's incursion into its airspace, and may be asking for compensation. The US hasn't had an embassy in Tehran since it was taken over in the 1979 uprising (despite what Republican presidential candidate Michelle Bachmann might think) and so the protest was lodged with the Swiss ambassador who handles American diplomatic matters. ®


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In 1854, a cholera outbreak in London puzzled the scientific community as well as the local authorities. Dr. John Snow, an epidemiologist studying the outbreak was trying to find the root causes by looking at the data available.
Dr. Snow's approach is very similar to the approach scientists use today to unlock insights from data, but in 1854, things were a bit different. Back then, researchers had very strong preconceptions about how diseases were transmitted, and the concept of germs was not yet understood. To try to understand what was happening, Dr. Snow mapped the cholera cases. Sure, today this might seem an obvious way to tackle this challenge, but back then, it was groundbreaking.
Data visualization enabled Dr. Snow to recognize that the cases were clustered around water pumps, specifically the one in Broad Street. This insight opened an amazing new branch of questions and answers for this outbreak and epidemiology in general.
As part of our demo contest, Jason Thomas created this visual tribute to John Snow taking advantage of maps, bar charts and slicers in Power View and Power BI.
We invite you to explore Dr. Snow's findings by using this interactive visualization. Play with the different radius and pumps to see the impact they had in cholera cases. Also, check out the London map to see where pumps where located back in 1854 and their impact.
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So ten years ago, I started college. Yeah. Ten years. I remember the ten years before that, and they seem very long compared to these last ten years that have gone by. As people always seem to say... it just seems like yesterday, and I can vividly remember each of these last ten years. It has been an amazing decade for me. Friendships that have been through a lot, that have gone through trying times, and that have come out stronger. Experiences that have shaped me and changed me, from a wide-eyed college-kid into an adult.
Five years ago, I made a similarly introspective post and I wondered where I would be five years from then. Well, so here I am. 27 years old... almost 28... I'm a veteran of a war and I'm finishing up my military service, I'm a citizen, I'm gainfully employed at a job that I absolutely love, I still own a house and a car, and finally, last but not the least, I have found that special someone I've been looking for my entire life (and let me tell you, she's AMAZING). There were many times during the last ten years that were hard for me... but I somehow got through it all, and actually ended up on top when all was said and done.
Looking back at my early days in this country I laugh at myself when I think of how naïve I used to be. But I guess that's a part of life and it's probably something that everyone goes through. All in all, I think I've done pretty well for myself. So, here's to another wonderful ten years.


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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Arrowhead Stadium is once again the loudest stadium in the NFL.
This time, it's official.
The Kansas City Chiefs fans broke the world record for an outdoor sports stadium in their 24-7 win over Oakland on Sunday when they reached 137.5 decibels in the closing minutes.
An official from Guinness World Records told The Associated Press that Chiefs fans broke the record of 136.6 set by Seahawks fans during a game against San Francisco earlier this year.
To put that in perspective, a jet engine at 100 feet is about 140 decibels.
"I had people who'd been coming to Chiefs games for decades come up to me and say, `I've never heard it that loud," said Chiefs chairman Clark Hunt, whose family's franchise has long claimed that Arrowhead Stadium is the loudest in the league. "It's very difficult for a team to play in that."
That may be an understatement.
The Raiders struggled with the reverberating sound all afternoon, and were whistled for 11 penalties -- several of them were false starts and for delay of game, simply because nobody in the visiting huddle could hear each other talking.
"It was a tough environment," Raiders quarterback Terrelle Pryor acknowledged.
The record-setting attempt was planned by Chiefs fans but had support of the organization, which paid $7,500 to fly an adjudicator from Guinness to Kansas City to document the effort. It turned out to be Philip Robertson, who also was on hand when the Seahawks set their mark.
"They destroyed any Premier League hopes of attaining this record, I can tell you that, and I'm a Brit that loves the Premier League," Robertson said. "It was extraordinary."
Robertson said that the sustained level of noise inside Arrowhead Stadium was greater than at CenturyLink Field, when Seattle set the record. But all that matters for the record books is the peak volume, and it appeared as if the Chiefs were going to come up short as the game wound down.
"In the fourth quarter, they got to 135.4, and that's where we thought they were going to finish," Robertson said. "Heads dropped, but then the fans really started working together."
The result was a record-setting din that shook the stadium's press box.
"We were really trying hard to get our calls to each other on defense. It was really tough," Chiefs safety Eric Berry said. "I had to actually go up to some of my teammates and yell in their ear what the calls were. But we love it, man. That's a great feeling."
Chiefs coach Andy Reid said he felt the ground shaking, and quarterback Alex Smith said he had a hard time communicating with teammates on the sideline when the crowd was at its peak.
Always when the Raiders had the ball, of course.
"The way the crowd was going, that was tough," Smith said. "I was sitting there on the sideline, and I could tell, it was hard environment to execute in."
Did he feel just a little sorry for Pryor trying to make his calls?
"Not at all. I've had my fair share of those," Smith said with a smile. "But I don't know if I've seen anything like that. That was pretty special."


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Parents dragged to the movies by wee ones know the sensation well: going off to some mental "happy place" (or not-so-happy place of "stuff I gotta do" lists) while a CGI-animated kid flick plays out unabated on the big screen. It's even money that most post-pubescents will have that mind-drift sensation sometime deep into the samba-saturated sequel Rio 2.
The 2011 adventure Rio was pretty generic to begin with, and the follow-up doesn't fly far from the nest. Neurotic Blu (Jesse Eisenberg), his blinkered wife Jewel (Anne Hathaway) and their brood of youngsters have settled comfortably into the domesticity of the Blu Bird Sanctuary in Rio de Janeiro. But when their benefactors Túlio (Rodrigo Santoro) and Linda (Leslie Mann) discover evidence that Blu's family may not be the only macaws of their kind in existence, it's back to the wild blue yonder of the Amazon in search of a flock hiding out in the depths of the rainforest.
Turns out that flock does exist, and includes Jewel's father Eduardo (Andy Garcia, well cast) and aunt (Rita Moreno). Urban-outfitted Blu now faces the hard sell of "the ways of the jungle," a lifestyle quickly embraced by the wife and kids. Repeating the (condescending) mantra "Happy wife, happy life," and fretting in the face of tough Eduardo and preening Roberto (Bruno Mars), Blu tries hard to tamp down a fresh inferiority complex and get with the program.
Busying up the plot are the complications of evil, encroaching clear-cutters and flightless cockatoo Nigel (Jemaine Clement of musical duo Flight of the Conchords), the latter back to get revenge on Blu. As if that weren't enough, birdbrains Nico (Jamie Foxx) and Pedro (Will i Am) are making preparations for "the Carnival show," necessitating a series of amusing call-of-the-wild auditions.
In story terms, it's all pretty much boilerplate at best and unpleasant at worst: Blu gets lectured and punished for his selfish but also legitimate feelings of hesitancy about upheaving his city life (and isn't this picture called Rio 2, after all?). That might be great for our compassion toward Blu, but it inadvertently turns his wife and kids into jerks who are never called out for their own insensitivities.
Perhaps better to focus on the colorful, advanced 3D spectacle—of which there is plenty, including a game of midair fútbol—and the saving graces of musical comedy. Clement again gets a big number (though a disappointing parody version of "I Will Survive"), but the MVP award of Rio 2 goes to Kristin Chenoweth as poisonous tree frog Gabi. Beside being arguably the most amusingly animated character, Gabi delivers a vocally virtuosic amorous aria, "Poisonous Love," that is the picture's hands-down highlight. Maybe instead of Rio 3, Gabi and Nigel should get their own spinoff, as the rest here—for all its visual and musical liveliness—resembles an early remark from that canary Nico: "I'm not inspired."
Very impressive A/V specs are the highlights of Fox's Deluxe Edition Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray + DVD + Digital HD combo pack for Rio 2. The 3D transfer here is a beaut, which begins with the filmmaker's concerted design efforts. The 3D modeled environments and characters give these pictures a head-start in the 3D process, but the placement of these elements within the frame skillfully creates a sense of reality that's a strong foundation to build on when pumping up the "wow" factor in key moments. The sense of depth impresses throughout, with a field that stretches back into the recesses of the jungle environment or the blue skies flecked with fluffy clouds as reference points. Brightness has been properly pumped to compensate for the 3D glasses, so color remains vibrant and arresting, a key selling point for the Rio pictures. Inky black level and carefully calibrated contrast help to keep the image pinpoint-resolved in detail and textures (which are especially fantastic in scenic elements and the birds' feathers—less so when it comes to the waxy human skin on the supporting characters). Protruding beaks and flying fruit are among the many effects that add excitement without ever announcing themselves as gimmickry. Certainly, the action scenes, like the aforementioned football sequence and the Carnival partying (with fireworks and confetti), pop like crazy in 3D, and earn the Deluxe Edition's price of "admission."
The 2D transfer retains all of the good qualities on display in the 3D transfer—other than the added dimension, though there's something to be said for the hi-def illusion of depth even in the 2D image. As for the lossless DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 mix, this is reference quality stuff that roars to life in the many musical sequences (both typical scoring and musical numbers) while maintaining a consistently ideal balance amongst its aural elements: dialogue is never overwhelmed by music or effects, and discrete separation and placement creates awe-inspiring soundscapes for the subtly different jungle environments in which each scene plays out (and, briefly, the distinct sounds of the urban jungle). LFE thumps along nicely with the film's percussive rhythms and the action, when required.
Unfortunately, this Deluxe Edition isn't quite so deluxe in the bonuses department, though a smattering of extras add some value. The 3D disc includes only the "Deleted Scene - 'Practice'" (:38, HD), which also appears on the 2D Blu-ray disc. That 2D Blu-ray holds most of the bonuses, including the swift recap featurette "Rio Refresher" (3:21, HD). More substantial is "Boom, Shake, Snap: The Local Sounds of Brazil" (19:28, HD), with director Carlos Saldanha and executive music producer Sergio Mendes talking us through the unique sonic highlights of the real Rio, which inspired their work on the film. "Birds and Beats: The Singing Talents of Rio 2" (10:19, HD) is that always welcome extra introducing the voice cast, while "Nigel the Shakespearean Cockatoo and Friends" (7:17, HD) hones in on Jemaine Clement's character and includes a tour of the Blue Sky facility by Carlos Saldanha.
The jukebox feature Music, Dance, Sing-Along Machine (HD) offers up access to ten "Music Machine" selections, four "Dance-Along" numbers, and six "Sing-Along" songs. "You Be the Judge" (1:49, HD) is a brief but amusing series of auditions from Tapir, Monkey and Turtle. Rounding out the disc are the music video "'What is Love' by Jonelle Monae" (1:37, HD), a Still Gallery (HD), "Theatrical Trailers" (4:51, HD), and the comparative "'I Will Survive' Multi-Language Sequence" (1:58, HD).
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Menopause is the end of the menstrual and fertility cycle in women. It can either occur naturally or as a result of surgical intervention that requires the removal of the ovaries and fallopian tubes. This usually as a treatment for cancer or other health conditions like infections or cysts. The ovaries regulate the hormones that control the menstrual cycle and fertility. Once the menstrual cycle permanently ends, either naturally or through the surgical removal of the ovaries, a woman is in menopause. The process varies form woman to woman and begins on average from the mid to late 40s to early 50s. As the production of eggs and hormones begins to decline, many women experience physical changes and symptoms that range in severity and intensity.
In addition to physical symptoms and changes, many women experience emotional and psychological symptoms related to the transition away from the child bearing phase. An OBGYN can help navigate the process and recommend treatment when necessary.
Signs and Symptoms of Menopause
Like the menstrual cycle itself, menopause affects every woman differently. Some may experience only mild symptoms and require minimal to no treatment. Others may experience drastic fluctuations in everything from body temperature to moods, and require medication and specialized treatment plans from an OBGYN to help manage symptoms. The most common symptoms are:
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Description (from the book): Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to seek the truth. He hires Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently trapped by a libel conviction, to investigate. He is aided by the pierced and tattooed punk prodigy Lisbeth Salander. Together they tap into a vein of unfathomable iniquity and astonishing corruption.
Review: I'm not a very big fan of the Millennium Trilogy, but I did enjoy the books. I've yet to see the movie not because I'm afraid the movies will ruin my reading experience, but rather I really don't want to subject myself through the grueling and graphic violence featured in the books. I can distance myself enough from reading those scenes but seeing them acted out on screen is a bit too much for me.
I know several people who tried the series because it was popular and they wanted to know what all the hype was about, but they were unable to finish it due to the long, dense first half of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (and to give you an idea, that long dense first half is about the first 150 pages of a 460 pages book). For these readers, I think the graphic novel will definitely work better for them. The dense subplot filled with Swedish finance corruption is completely stripped away and we are immediately introduced to the mystery that lies in the heart of the book.
The story and characters have been altered in order to convey emotion and urgency on the page. The plot moves at a steady pace and is separated with two plot lines that weave and will eventually meet in the second novel. One plot line introduces the star of the series, Lisbeth Salander while the other shows how Blomkvist's own troubles and his involvement with the mystery. Major plot points are present and some are explicitly shown such as Lisbeth's boss openly flirting with her and how she is raped and beaten by her 'guardian.'
I wasn't overly fond of the drawings in this adaptation with the exception of Lisbeth. I found her to be incredibly striking looking. In my head I pictured her more like Noomi Rapace does in the movie. I liked how her physical features allowed her to display her wide emotions raging within her. Just from looking at her eyes you can only imagine all the horrors she has experienced. I wasn't a big of Blomkvist at all in the books and more so in this graphic novel. Unlike Lisbeth, his personality doesn't really come through besides his opinion on an open marriage and his attempt to clear his name from corruption. His depictions are inconsistent from panel to panel and sometimes I had a hard time identifying him with other characters around. There is lots of shading and shadowing in panels that give the book its dark and ominous feel to it.
Overall, I thought the adaptation was pretty good. It gives readers who are unfamiliar with the story a taste of the series and characters. I'm not sure if I will continue reading the graphic novel series though as I'm a bit over the series all together.
Rating: 3 stars
Words of Caution: There are extremely graphic rape scene that lasts for several panels. There is strong violence and sex scenes. Recommended for mature teens and adults only.
If you like this book try: The Girl Who Played with Fire by Steig Larsson or Into the Woods by Tana French


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There is currently no program in Library Science. The following course is offered and may be used as an associate degree elective.
101 Information Literacy and Research Skills - 1 hour lecture, 1 unit (Letter Grade or Pass/No Pass Option)
Advisory: English 48 and English 49, each with a grade of "C" or better, or equivalent, or
Assessment Skill Levels R5 and W5; or English 37A, English 37B, or English 64 each
with a grade of "C" or better, or equivalent.
This course is an overview of information resources and the skills required to use
them effectively. Students learn how to use library resources such as electronic indexes
and databases, online services, and the Internet, as well as learn to develop strategies
for conducting research. This course is intended for students who wish to acquire
skills that enable them to find information for academic research, career demands,
and/or lifelong learning. (FT) AA/AS; CSU; UC.
This discipline may offer specialized instruction in one or more of the following areas: Supervised Tutoring (044), Experimental Topics (265), Independent Study (290), Individualized Instruction (296), Service Learning (277), or Work Experience (270). Detailed course descriptions are listed on page page 124. Please refer to the class schedule and/or see the dean or department chair for availability.


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Dr. Judith Cebra-Thomas
Associate Professor, Developmental biology and general biology. IACUC Committee Chair. Allied Health Coordinator.
Office Hours
M: 12 pm (noon) - 1 pm
T: 4 - 5 pm
W: 5 - 6 pm
F: 12:30 - 2:30 pm
Comments: Other office hours by appointment.
B.S., Johns Hopkins University
Ph.D., Washington University
Courses Taught:
BIOL 100 – General Biology
BIOL 108H – Freshman Honors Seminar (Topic: Bioethics)
BIOL 263 – Cell Biology Laboratory
BIOL 465 – Developmental Biology
BIOL 472 – Senior Seminar (Topic: Stem Cells & Human cloning)
UNIV 101 – Freshman Seminar
Areas of Specialization:
Developmental biology, bone formation, developmental basis for evolutionary change, cell and molecular biology.
Research Interest(s):
The goal of my research is to understand the processes that control the development of an organism from an embryo. Changes in those processes result in changes in the shape of the adult organism, and can lead to the production of novel body plans (and new species of organisms). A good example of this is the turtle; the turtle shell is made of 50 bones that appear to be unique – they do not appear in any other existing vertebrate. In addition, the turtle shell appears suddenly in the fossil record. For these reasons, turtle shell is considered to be an evolutionary novelty.
Currently, my students and I are investigating the developmental origin of the cells that give rise to the bony shell of the turtle. The bones of the turtle shell do not form like the bones in the trunk of other vertebrates, instead they form like those of the vertebrate skull. Skull bones are produced by migrating, multipotential cells known as neural crest cells. Our results suggest that there is a unique population of neural crest cells in turtle embryos that is responsible for forming the shell. The significance of this research is two-fold: first, it addresses the mechanism of cell differentiation, and second, it seeks to provide an explanation for the appearance of a novel structure that has provided a challenge to evolutionary theory.
Selected Publication(s):
Cebra-Thomas JA, Betters* E, Yin M, Plafkin* C, McDow* K, and Gilbert SF. 2007. Evidence that a late-emerging population of trunk neural crest cells forms the plastron in the turtle Trachemys scripta. Evolution and Development 9:267-277.
Gilbert SF, Bender* G. Betters* E , Yin M, and Cebra-Thomas JA. 2007. The contribution of neural crest cells in the formation of the nuchal bone and plastron of the turtle shell. Integrative and Comparative Biology ; published online June 1, 2007; doi: 10.1093/icb/icm020.
Gilbert SF, Cebra-Thomas JA, and Burke AC. 2007. "How the turtle gets its shell," In Biology of Turtles: Structures to Strategies (J Wyneken, ed.). CRC Press, Boca Raton. In press.
Cebra-Thomas , J., Tan*, F., Sistla*, S., Estes, E., Bender*, G., Kim*, C., and Gilbert, S. F. 2005. How the turtle forms its shell: A paracrine hypothesis of carapace formation. J. Experimental Zoology/ Molecular and Developmental Evolution 304B: 158 – 169.
Cebra-Thomas J.A., Brommer*, J., Gardner*, R., Lam*, G.K., Sheipe*, H.A., and Gilbert, S.F. 2003. T-box gene products are required for mesenchymal induction of epithelial branching in the embryonic mouse lung, Developmental Dynamics 226:82-90.
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By all accounts, the quiet Eichler enclave of Nineteenth Avenue Park has been a marvelous place to live since folks first arrived in 1955.
"It was awesome," says Shannon Tallman, who grew up in the San Mateo neighborhood from age two, briefly left, but returned to raise three children there herself.
She remembers neighborhood baseball games and talent shows, with parents hauling pianos into their driveways to better entertain the community. "We had barbecues outside for no reason," says Rita Balliet, an original owner and Shannon's lifelong friend.
"There were patio parties and block parties," recalls Dorothy Ragent, who moved to Nineteenth Avenue Park with her husband Boris in 1956. "Kids would play out on the street till five or six in the evening."
And when there were threats, the neighborhood came together. Plans for a cement plant were quickly scotched, Dorothy Ragent remembers. "We took it upon ourselves to fight it," she says. "It helped that Roy Archibald"—San Mateo's popular mayor back then—"lived here."
Nor did the neighborhood ever turn surly. This is a place, after all, where longtime resident Dorothy Sussli welcomes newcomers and looks after her elderly neighbors, where car collector Joe Cuevas offers free advice to neighbors with car fetishes of their own, and where David and Linda Koehn, walking the neighborhood shortly after moving in, were invited inside by folks whose home they stopped to admire. "That was so kind," David says. "It was a real memorable moment for us."
Still, when Hai Yang, a young scientist who was born and raised in South China, moved to Nineteenth Avenue Park a year ago, he was surprised at the lack of spirit. "Not many people were enthusiastic about the community," he says.
The first 19th Avenue Park Neighborhood Association meeting he attended had folks from only a dozen families in attendance—in a neighborhood of almost 240 homes. "Sometimes," he says, "neighbors don't know their neighbors." He adds: "In China, people know their neighbors and they help each other."
Yang immediately set about building community—and his efforts are starting to pay off.
Nineteenth Avenue Park, built from 1953 to 1955 to designs by architects Jones ∓ Emmons, remains something of "a mixed bag," says Koehn, who also arrived last year.
Although many homes still show evidence of having gone through what neighbor Ken White calls "a period of ticky-tackiness," many others have recently been restored or revamped in keeping with the Eichler aesthetic.
Koehn's own home, a landmark because it is one of the first houses you see when entering from Charles Street, is being transformed from an eyesore to something hip, with replacement Eichler siding, an austere water-saving garden—and a two-story palm tree.
"There are a lot of homes I notice that are in the process," Koehn says. "If you see a lot of homes in process, that's a good sign."
But there's more to the Nineteenth Avenue Park story than the standard newcomers-restore-faded-neighborhood story. To start, the neighborhood is unusual among Eichler tracts in several ways.
It began partly as a blue-collar community, some old-timers say. Eichler neighborhoods tend to be professional and managerial. And from the start, Nineteenth Avenue Park had an unusually large percentage of Asian residents—during a time when few neighborhoods in the area would sell to Asians.
Also, Nineteenth Avenue Park gradually became one of the most urban of Eichler's neighborhoods, as large shopping centers and mid-rise office parks popped up along its fringe and as the three-lane Bayshore Freeway morphed into Highway 101 and Nineteenth Avenue was supplanted by Highway 92.
Today, the neighborhood is at the crossroads of the San Francisco Peninsula, with two crowded freeways intersecting blocks away, gleaming office towers serving as landmarks, and downtown San Mateo, vibrant and charming as ever, a 25-minute walk away. The Hayward Park Caltrain station, two blocks from the neighborhood, provides a commute alternative—as do bike paths. Hai Yang, a scientist for a pharmaceutical firm, bikes to work.
Yet, despite its central location, Nineteenth Avenue Park is a bit of a hidden Eichler enclave, less known, less esteemed, with homes less costly, than its siblings in Palo Alto or Sunnyvale, or even up the hill in San Mateo Highlands.


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Leonard Pitts: The man who made America click
Published 12:00 am Monday, May 28, 2012
By Leonard Pitts
We are gathered here today to memorialize a man who revolutionized our lives.
So what did Eugene J. Polley do? What was the nature of his great leap forward? Did he invent the PC? Did he invent the cellphone? Did he invent the Internet?
No. Eugene J. Polley invented the wireless remote.
You young'uns won't remember this, but back in the day, when you wanted to change channels you had to actually get up from the couch and embark upon an arduous trip five, six, sometimes even seven feet across the living room where you would manually turn a "dial" until the desired channel sprang into view in all its black-and-white glory.
While you were up, someone would always ask you to adjust the rabbit ears (ask your dad about the rabbit ears) to get rid of the snow (ask your dad about the snow). Then it was a long trudge back across the living room to the couch where your evil sister had taken your seat and wouldn't give it back no matter how nicely you threatened to drop her Chatty Cathy (ask your mother about Chatty Cathy) down the sewer, leaving you no choice but to shove her and then she punched you and then mom started yelling and didn't want to hear how it wasn't your fault, and next thing you know, you'd been sent to bed early and you didn't even get to see "Gilligan's Island" that night.
Not that your humble correspondent is holding a grudge or anything.
Anyway, Polley — who died of pneumonia May 20 at 96 — was an engineer for Zenith Electronics. In 1950, the company had released a remote control that attached to the set by a cord. One can only guess how many customers twisted how many ankles before Zenith decided this was not a great idea.
Five years later, Polley fixed this. His remote, which looked like a glorified hair dryer, operated by sending light beams to receptors on the set. Now, the idea of a set that changed channels by responding to light had its own flaws. It was not uncommon to open the blinds and suddenly find Huntley and Brinkley on the screen where Cronkite had been a moment before (ask … well, you know).
Plus, the wireless remote was initially a luxury item. Only those with an extra $100 to spend could enjoy the convenience of sampling all their entertainment options (CBS, NBC, ABC) from the comfort of their chair. Kids whose parents were not "made of money" were stuck at the mercy of their evil sisters and had to figure out ingenious ways of changing channels without surrendering their prized seat on the couch. Little brothers were good for this.
Eventually, of course, the wireless remote became ubiquitous. Polley (along with whomever had the bright idea to build a mini-fridge into a reclining chair) ushered us into a world where it became possible, depending on bladder strength, to watch hours and hours and hours and hours of television without ever leaving the couch — to sit zombie-like on one's fat assets, spouse and family ignored, spastically switching channels, searching for that holy grail of modern existence, "something good to watch," by sampling one's entertainment options (still CBS, NBC, and ABC — and about 500 more).
Convenience has long been the watchword of technological innovation, the promise implicit in every new dishwasher, ice maker, word processor and Roomba: it will make our lives easier.
Eugene J. Polley's device did make our lives easier — too much so, a diabetes specialist might say. Polley himself would have agreed. As he once groused to the Palm Beach Post, "Everything has to be done remotely now or forget it. Nobody wants to get off their fat and flabby to control these electronic devices."
As true as that is, one still cannot help but be grateful to Polley for his device. Granted, one's evil sister might disagree.
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Leonard Pitts is a columnist for the Miami Herald, 1 Herald Plaza, Miami, Fla., 33132. Readers may contact him via e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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MI5 recruiters enter the Strategy Boutique in CIO search
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MI5 aims to recruit a senior business executive to head up big changes to its IT operation, ahead of an anticipated squeeze on the intelligence budget.
A six-figure salary is on offer for the Security Service's "head of transformation and office of CIO".
All the intelligence agencies are making huge technological investments and structural changes costing hundreds of millions of pounds as they adapt to the online world. In March it was revealed that older MI5 officers with poor IT skills face redundancy.
At the same time it is scheduled to open four new halls at its data centre in 2011. The same year it plans to complete a brand new backup data centre, which it will share with MI6. The "head of transformation" at the Security Service will play a central role in the programme.
Not that the recruitment advert gives that much away. Apart from experience in blue-chip organisations, the main requirement seems to be fluency in managementese.
The successful candidate will be responsible for "shaping the transformation and leading it through implementation, capturing the hearts and minds of the CIO organisation and the wider group of MI5 stakeholders", it explains.
Applications close the week after next, which MI5 says is a result of "aggressive timescales" for its IT plans. Security clearance could take up to six months however.
The intelligence budget for the next three years is expected to be squeezed at this year's Comprehensive Spending Review. The £2.2bn single intelligence account, which funds all the agencies, is unlikely to be cut much in real terms, but the rapid growth under Labour will surely be arrested.
Lobbying against cuts has already begun. This week The Sun cited "senior security sources" warning that cuts would make an attack on the Olympics more likely.
The head of MI5, Jonathan Evans, told MPs this year he had already launched an internal initiative called "Living Within our Means" in anticipation of tighter budgets. ®


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The economy of Chad ranks as one of the poorest in the world, with 80% of the population living below the poverty line. Years of civil war have scared away foreign investors; those who left Chad have only recently begun to regain confidence in the country's future.
N'Djamena is the capital city of Chad. It is also the largest city in the country. N'Djamena is a regional market for livestock, salt, dates, and grains. Meat, fish and cotton processing are the chief industries, and the city continues to serve as the centre of economic activity in Chad, despite the violent civil conflicts.
N'Djamena has an overall cost of living index which equates it with high cost of living locations. The overall cost of living index is comprised of the prices for defined quantities of the same goods and services across all 13 Basket Groups.
The latest cost of living rank for each of the 13 Basket Groups is now available.


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Chris Barry
Chris Barry lives on Long Island in New York with his wife and three kids. He has had a lifelong love of cartoons, comics and animation. Those who know him well say he has truly, "earned his Disney PhD." Chris has been involved with Television Production for 20 years and began his career working with The Muppets at Jim Henson Productions in NYC. Currently teaching TV Production to high school students, Chris has been writing about many different facets of The Walt Disney Company for several years now.


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Now Model S Has a British Accent
We broke out the champagne on a sunny Saturday in London over the weekend to deliver the first right hand drive Model S's to customers in the United Kingdom. Tesla CEO Elon Musk was on hand at The Crystal in East London to pass the keys to the first five owners (including Fifty Shades of Grey author E.L. James).
The event also marked the unveiling of the UK's first Superchargers, located at the same site. We're just beginning a rapid rollout of Superchargers in the country, but by the end of next year Model S owners will be able to drive the length and breadth of the UK and Ireland relying only on the free-to-use Superchargers for energy, which means they can pack a lunch for the trip and leave their wallets at home.
By the time the majority of our first UK customers get their Model S delivered this year, they'll already be able to drive from Exeter in the south west of England to Edinburgh in Scotland just on Superchargers. We are also making sure that central London and other large metro areas are well served with conveniently located inner-city Superchargers
Not everyone could make it to London for the special occasion, so we put together this video of a large group of folks looking forward to a future without petrol.


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This past March, patent law made an important shift that all entreps should be aware of. The new system is known as "first-to-file" which means patents go to the first entity to file an application. In the past, if you could prove that you were the first to invent the product, you were awarded a patent. Additionally, patents will be judged against international inventions, not just those created in the US.
With these new rules: 1- Be sure to search the World Intellectual Property Organization's Patentscope and the European Patent Office's website. 2- Consider filing a "provisional application" which will hold your patent for one year-- only $130 for provisional filing! The good news- the US Patent and Trademark Office is setting up pro-bono patent assistance centers across the country! Learn more:


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NEW YORK (AP) -- Sears Holdings Corp. reported a hefty loss in the fourth-quarter on a 14% sales drop, as the beleaguered retailer continues to struggle to bring shoppers into its stores.
But the operator of Kmart and Sears stores narrowed its loss versus a year ago. It is also seeing rare sales growth this month.
Sears' Chairman, CEO and hedge fund billionaire Eddie Lampert called it a "tough to terrible" holiday season for the company. It underscores his challenges to turn around the business.
Lampert combined Sears and Kmart in 2005, about two years after he helped bring Kmart out of bankruptcy. It faces mounting pressure from nimbler rivals like Wal-Mart Stores and Home Depot.
Sears is shifting away from its focus on running a store network into a member-focused business. Loyal shoppers receive incentives to buy. Its results have been hurt as it continues traditional promotions while investing in its membership program dubbed Shop Your Way.
Sears has also been cutting costs, reducing inventory and selling assets to return to profits. It plans to spin off its Lands' End clothing business as a separate company.
"While transformations of this size are challenging, and our financial results do not currently reflect our progress in member engagement, we believe the changes we are making through Shop Your Way and integrated retail will benefit us in the changing retail landscape," Lampert said.
Sears noted that sales to Shop Your Way members accounted for 72% of all business from Sears' full-scale stores and Kmart stores in the fourth quarter, up from 58% a year ago.
But Gary Balter, an analyst at Credit Suisse, says that Sears needs to do more to invest in its outdated stores.
"We would expect that 2013 was the nadir, as it is hard to imagine that a retailer can lose that much money on the large sales base that Sears enjoys," he wrote.
Sears lost $358 million, or $3.37 per share, for the period ended Feb. 1 versus a loss of $489 million, or $4.61 per share, a year ago. Revenue dropped 14% to $10.59 billion. The period had one less week in the latest quarter and fewer stores.
Sales at stores open at least a year declined 6.4%. At Sears stores, the figure fell 7.8% on softness in categories such as tools, consumer electronics and home appliances. It dropped 5.1% at Kmart locations on weakness in consumer electronics, toys, drugstore, grocery and household items.
This metric is a key indicator of a retailer's health.
Total costs and expenses fell to $10.73 billion from $12.88 billion. Merchandise inventories fell to $7 billion from $7.6 billion.
For the year, Sears lost $1.37 billion, or $12.87 per share, versus a loss of $930 million, or $8.78 per share, a year ago. Annual revenue declined 9% to $36.19 billion.


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I have been experimenting with making my own condiments over the paste few weeks and there is one thing I cannot get correct.
The tomato paste has a thicker grainy texture that is really not desirable in a condiment so I was wondering if there is a good way thin out that texture for a more saucy feel. I am also trying to maintain a strict Paleo diet so using corn syrup or other things like it are not ideal.


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